The Buddy Platform

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Buddy Platform, Inc. is a Kirkland, Wash. based company that offers mobile application and game developers on any OS platform, cloud based solutions to ease the development burden. Developers build their apps on top of Buddy services such as hosted user accounts, friends lists, messaging, geo-location services, photo albums, metadata, push notifications and usage analytics.

The Founders

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• David McLauchlan – CEO and Co-Founder

  David brings a strong breadth of international business development and program management skills to Buddy. Prior to co-founding Buddy, he spent nearly eleven years at Microsoft Corporation, where he most recently led business development for the Zune hardware business. Prior to that, he spent five years in strategy & standardization roles within the Windows division, and before that was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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• Jeff MacDuff – Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder

  As CTO, Jeff has overall responsibility for the architecture of the Buddy Platform, as well as topology planning and is head of development. Prior to co-founding Buddy, he worked for over twelve years at Microsoft Corporation, where he most recently managed a team in the Windows Embedded Business focused on UX and app platform technologies.

Board Of Advisors

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• Ron Spector

  Ron has had a successful career of over 20 years as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, adviser and CEO in and around the digital media and technology sector. He is a results-driven executive with an operational and advisory background in strategic planning, business and corporate development, M&A and corporate finance with a focus on digital media, e-commerce, mobile-wireless and internet applications.

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• Charlie Kindel

  Charlie Kindel was formerly the General Manager for the Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem at Microsoft where he drove the creation of the application and game ecosystem for Windows Phone 7. During his 21 year tenure at Microsoft, Charlie worked on Premier Support, Internet Explorer, ActiveX, Windows NT, Windows home networking, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and Windows Phone 7. He is a founder and CTO of a stealth Seattle startup, and an active angel investor, mentor and advisor in the Seattle startup community.

Press Materials

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For Buddy launch press materials, images, logo files, briefing documents, founder quotes and a business summary, please click here to download the Buddy Launch Press Kit.